Irishmama
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make a dandy tool for checking how close a child is to the top of the shell for rear-facing. I noticed a lot of posters asking how to measure for the 1" rule, and I thought this might help. It's really handy because it's easy to get the top paint stick level with the top of the shell, and it's an easy visual to make sure you have the lines straight, and the ruler self-adjusts to measure how much growing room left. (I had to use a teddy bear as a stunt double as dd2 was not willing to pose for pictures.) Teddy has three inches of height above his head, so two inches of growing room left.
Just put the paper clip on one paint stick, tape to hold it in place, and slide the ruler through the paper clip. Ta da! I tried to zoom in, but on my camera it was to blurry. But you can get the general idea. I'll get close-ups if I can get the camera to cooperate.
I put it in an album, I don't have enough storage space to add as an attachment. If there's a better way to do this, let me know! I don't have photobucket.
http://www.car-seat.org/album.php?albumid=133
You could also use it for checking how much growing room to the next harness slot, if you wanted to be really exact with your measurement.
ETA: Got the pictures in the post. Thanks, NannyMom!
Just put the paper clip on one paint stick, tape to hold it in place, and slide the ruler through the paper clip. Ta da! I tried to zoom in, but on my camera it was to blurry. But you can get the general idea. I'll get close-ups if I can get the camera to cooperate.
I put it in an album, I don't have enough storage space to add as an attachment. If there's a better way to do this, let me know! I don't have photobucket.
http://www.car-seat.org/album.php?albumid=133
You could also use it for checking how much growing room to the next harness slot, if you wanted to be really exact with your measurement.
ETA: Got the pictures in the post. Thanks, NannyMom!
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